Acknowledgement

The author is grateful to the staff at Sotheby’s Picture Library, Christie’s Images Ltd., Bonhams, Arthur Ackermann Ltd., David Messum Galleries, Richard Green & Co., The Bridgeman Art Library, The Nature Picture Library, The National Art Library, The Wallace Collection, R Cox & Co., Lane Fine Art, The Kennel Club, The American Kennel Club, The National Trust, The Royal Collection – Photographic Services and private collectors, (especially the late Mevr AH (Ploon) de Raad of Zijderveld, Holland, who gave free use of her extensive photographic archive of sporting paintings), for their gracious and generous permissions to reproduce some of the illustrations used in this book.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins and Ancestry –
Gundogs - Before There Were Guns
The Water Dogs
Decoy Dogs
Victorian Dogs
20th Century Dogs
Scenting Success
Chapter 2: The Specialists ~
Bird-dogs
Retrievers – Lost and found
Spaniels-English Springer
The Norfolk Dog                                                          
Cockers
Overlooked Breeds
Clumbers
Restoring our Water Spaniel
Chapter 3: The All-Rounders ~
The British Need
German HPRs
Continental Setters
Braques
Pointing Griffons

Chapter 4: The Future -                      
Rebranding the Breeds
Temperament
Valuing our Shooting Dogs
Show Gundogs

Conclusion ~        

Conserving the Gundog as a Sporting Dog

Points of the Dog

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index